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Florida's attorney general announced an antitrust investigation into CDP — formerly Carbon Disclosure Project — and the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), following similar investigations and lawsuits from other Republican-led states. 

While legal experts will determine the outcome of the investigation — and as politics will continue to weigh in on sustainability practices — it's important to note:

• Investors, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders continue to necessitate the transparent disclosure of sustainability performance, to help ease informed decisions and competitive analysis.
• CDP and SBTi are only part of a larger ecosystem — full of raters and rankers, global regulators, and other standard setters — that continues to progress toward comprehensive sustainability disclosures.
• If the allegations are proven true, addressing such concerns will only bolster the credibility and utility of raters and rankers and their voluntary reporting practices.

In short — all politics aside — sustainability reporting remains a key need to ensure transparency and meet stakeholder demand.

What's new

If your Sustainability Explorer includes CDP 2025, you can now collaborate with other members of your Sustainability Reporting workspace to respond to CDP, with a questionnaire tailored to the specific questions of your company's 2025 submission. 

As you draft responses, you can:

• Review response options, scoring criteria, and other guidance from CDP for each question.
• View metrics in Sustainability Program that collect related values, to help inform responses.
• Preview how responses appear in a table, as submitted through the CDP portal.

To get started, set up your 2025 questionnaire — based on your company's unique API ID available in the CDP portal — in Sustainability Explorer.

When responses are ready, a Questionnaire Owner can update the corresponding questions in your company's CDP submission — directly from the questionnaire, no copy/paste required!

What's next? If you also use Carbon, you'll be able to review responses automatically prepared for CDP's Environmental performance modules, then copy and paste them into your questionnaire or update your submission directly from Carbon! To learn more, view Sustainability reporting in Workiva Carbon.

Remember CDP's deadlines! To receive a CDP score, submit your responses by September 17; for unscored responses or any amendments, November 19.

To learn more, view Craft responses to 2025 CDP questionnaire for sustainability reporting in Support Center.

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On the calendar

August 28, join Forrester Consulting for The ROI of One Platform for Reporting, Sustainability, and Risk: Workiva TEI Webinar featuring Forrester. At this webinar, learn:

• Detailed results of Forrester's independent Total Economic Impact^TM study of the Workiva Platform
• Benefits of unifying financial and sustainability reporting and risk in one audit-ready Platform, based on third-party research
• Findings from Forrester's interviews with multiple Workiva customers

September 8-10, travel to Washington DC for Workiva Amplify 2025, where you can learn, network, and share knowledge with other sustainability reporters and thought leaders. Explore its full agenda — with many sessions related to sustainability reporting, including:

• AI at Your Command: Boosting Accuracy and Efficiency in Sustainability
• Breaking Silos: Connecting People and Processes for Cross-Functional Sustainability
• Get Hands On with Sustainability Reporting
• Transparency Matters: Why Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Isn't Going Away
• Unlocking Value: Sustainability and Managed Services with KPMG
• Sustainability Management Product Roadmap and Innovations
• Untangling Global Climate Disclosure: Practical Steps to Streamline Carbon Reporting
• Elevating Sustainability Assurance: Enhance Trust and Transparency to Create Long-Term Value

Share your thoughts

While Amplify will be a great opportunity to engage with subject-matter experts, advisory partners, and other sustainability reporters in person, the Workiva Community is where you can keep the conversations and knowledge-share going. Check out the new Community Connect: Sustainability forum, where you can learn from industry professionals and peers as you collaborate and share insights, challenges, and solutions.

In addition, check out the discussions in:

• Sustainability Management, to discuss best practices and experiences with sustainability reporting, in general and within the Workiva Platform
• What's new in Sustainability, to learn the latest enhancements of Sustainability Reporting features like Sustainability Program and Sustainability Explorer
• Sustainability Feedback, to share and support ideas on how to improve Sustainability Management features

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